Thousands of package printers descended on Rosemont, IL this week, electing once again to participate in the biennial pilgrimage that is Labelexpo Americas. The attraction: the invitation and theme, “Explore Your Future.” They joined more than 400 industry partners on site to display the latest innovations designed to enhance productivity, automate efficiently, move forward smartly … Continued
A special thank you to all of the presenters at the Flexo Quality Consortium’s (FQC) session at Forum 2018! It was well attended and received. Titled, “Cultivating Our Future Through Research,” it offered a look at promising initiatives, presentations from a pair of FTA scholarship recipients and more. As mentioned at Forum, two members have … Continued
Forum 2018 session “Press Approval Match Game,” taking place Tuesday afternoon and co-chaired by Jessica Harrell of Anderson & Vreeland Inc and Ellen Farrell of DuPont Advanced Printing, detailed the typical complications that lead to miscommunication and how to deal with them. The co-chairs opened the session by explaining three goals: To explore avenues to … Continued
Forum 2018 session “Press Approval Match Game,” taking place Tuesday afternoon and co-chaired by Jessica Harrell of Anderson & Vreeland Inc and Ellen Farrell of DuPont Advanced Printing, detailed the typical complications that lead to miscommunication and how to deal with them. The co-chairs opened the session by explaining three goals: To explore avenues to … Continued
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WILMINGTON, DE—Sixty flexographers eager to advance their knowledge and learn how to further enhance their print quality were in attendance at the recent I-95 Flexo Seminar. The seminar—free for FTA members—took place April 4 at the DuPont Customer Technology Center in Wilmington, DE. Five industry experts gave presentations which covered both the critical components at … Continued
CLEMSON, SC—The Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University has revamped a popular industry seminar—Digital Plates and Screening for Flexo— which takes place on May 30-31. The course will give attendees a behind-the-scenes look at optimizing all variables in the plate selection process. Round top or flat top? Hard or soft durometer? … Continued
CLEMSON, SC—The Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University has revamped a popular industry seminar—Digital Plates and Screening for Flexo— which takes place on May 30-31. The course will give attendees a behind-the-scenes look at optimizing all variables in the plate selection process. Round top or flat top? Hard or soft durometer? … Continued
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—U.K.-based prepress company Hamillroad Software announced that DuPont Cyrel EASY Plates have been approved for use with Bellissima Digitally Modulated Screening (DMS). Hamillroad CEO Andy Cave said: “During the R&D phase for Bellissima DMS, we involved a number of suppliers within the flexographic printing industry. During this process, we were able to test their technologies … Continued
With customers demanding consistently higher-quality print as well as tighter tolerances, the flexographic print industry has been challenged. However, we have accepted this challenge and stepped up to the plate (no pun intended). New developments and technologies with prepress, plates, inks, substrates and presses have all contributed to our successes. Even with the latest and … Continued
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